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Miners on strike take pictures near barricades of burning tyres on the A-6 motorway, on the second day of a strike to protest the government's spending cuts in the mining sector, in El Montico, near Oviedo, northern Spain, May 24, 2012. Spain's economy is contracting for the second time since late 2009 and four years of stagnation and recession have pushed unemployment above 24 percent, the highest rate in the European Union. REUTERS/Eloy Alonso

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Suicide bomber kills five in Iraq's Kirkuk: police

KIRKUK | Wed Aug 27, 2008 4:56am EDT

KIRKUK (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed at least five people and wounded eight more on Saturday in Iraq's northern city of Kirkuk, police said.

The bomber detonated a suicide vest in a car market in southern Kirkuk, said Major-General Torhan Abdul-Rahman, a senior police official in the city.

Control over the oil-rich city, which is home to a mix of Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen, has stoked ethnic tensions as Iraq prepares for provincial elections that the United States and United Nations have been hoping would take place this fall.

Iraq's minority Kurds want to ensure the elections, which may be delayed substantially due to political disagreement over Kirkuk, do not weaken their control of the city.

Kurds see Kirkuk as their ancestral home and hope to make it part of their autonomous northern region.

(Reporting by Sherko Raouf and Mustafa Mahmoud)
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